"On an Irish Island "tells the remarkable story of a remote
outpost nearly untouched by time in the first half of the twentieth
century, and of the adventurous men and women who visited and were
inspired by it.
In a love letter to a vanished way of life, Robert Kanigel brings
to life this wildly beautiful island, notable for the vivid
communal life of its residents and the unadulterated Irish they
spoke well into the twentieth century. With the Irish language
rapidly disappearing, Great Blasket became a magnet for scholars,
linguists, and writers during the Gaelic renaissance. As we follow
these visitors--among them John Millington Synge, author of "The
Playboy of the Western World"--we are captivated both by the tiny
group of islanders who kept an entire country's past alive and by
their complex relationships with those who brought the island's
story to the larger world.
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